DECLARATION OF COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS
BAYSHORE DIVISION NO. 4
Dated September 14, 1964 Recorded September 16, 1964
Book 248, Page 71, Deed Records
Amended February 4, 1980 Recorded February 11, 1980
Book 110, Page 240, Deed Records
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that KENNETH M. RENZ, a single man, and BAYSHORE, a co-partnership of A. J. McMILLAN, MOKSHA W. SMITH, A J. HUTTON, GLEN CORNING, LAWRENCE C. ANGELL, J.D. HONE and J. J. MAGNUS, who are hereinafter collectively referred to as "declarants" do hereby declare as follows:
WHEREAS declarants are the fee owners or contract purchasers, respectively, of certain real property located in Lincoln County, State of Oregon, all lots and tracts within the plat of Bayshore Division No. 4, according to the plat thereof on record in the office of the County Clerk of Lincoln County, Oregon, hereinafter referred to as "said property"; and
WHEREAS declarants desire to subject said property to the restrictions, covenants, conditions, reservations, easements, liens and charges hereinafter set forth, each and all of which is and are for the benefit of said property and for each owner thereof, and shall inure to the benefit of and pass with said property as covenants running with the land, and each and every parcel thereof, and shall apply to and bind the successors in interest, and any future owners thereof, this Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions being for the purpose of keeping said property desirable, uniform and suitable in architectural design and use as hereinafter specified; and
WHEREAS the power to enforce said restrictions, covenants, conditions, reservations, easements, liens and charges is to reside in Bayshore Beach Club, Inc., its successors and assigns, a nonprofit corporation to be organized under the laws of the State of Oregon; now, therefore,
DECLARANTS HEREBY DECLARE that the above described property is and shall be held and conveyed upon and subject to the restrictions, covenants, conditions, reservations, easements, liens and charges hereinafter set forth. No property other than that described above shall be deemed subject to this Declaration unless and until specifically made subject thereto. Declarants, or their successors or assigns, may from time to time subject additional real property owned by them, contiguous to any of the said property above described to the restrictions set forth by appropriate reference thereto. This Declaration is intended to replace any and all covenants and conditions to which the said property has heretofore been subjected, and to that end all covenants and conditions heretofore made affecting the said property are hereby declared null and void.
ARTICLE I.
General Purpose of Conditions
The said property is being subjected by this Declaration to the restrictions, covenants, conditions, reservations, easements, liens and charges hereby declared to insure the best use and the most appropriate development of each building site thereof; to protect the owners of building sites against such improper use of surrounding building sites as will depreciate the value of their property; to preserve, so far as practicable, the natural beauty of said property; to guard against the erection thereon of poorly designed or proportioned structures and structures built of improper or unsuitable materials; to obtain harmonious color schemes; to insure the highest and best development of said property; to encourage and secure the erection of attractive homes thereon with appropriate locations thereof on building sites; to prevent haphazard and inharmonious improvements of building sites; to secure and maintain proper setbacks from streets; and adequate free spaces between structures; and in general to provide for a high type and quality of improvement of said property, and thereby to enhance the values of investments made by purchasers of lots thereon.
ARTICLE II.
Covenants and Restrictions
front lot line, nor nearer than 5 feet to any such street line or interior property line, without written approval of the Planning Committee. For the purpose of this covenant, eaves, steps and open porches shall not be considered as part of a building; provided, however, that this shall not be construed to prevent any portion of any structure or building upon one lot to encroach upon or over another lot not held in the same ownership.
reserved to construct and maintain public utilities on the streets and roads of the plat either above or below ground and to make all necessary slopes for cuts or fills upon the lots shown on the plat in the original grading of said streets or roads, together with the right to drain the streets or roads over or across any lot or lots where water may take a natural course and a perpetual easement is additionally reserved under, over and across the rear five (5) feet of each lot for the purpose of placing, laying, erecting, constructing, maintaining and operating or of authorizing the placement, laying, erection, construction, maintenance and operation of utilities, and sewerage and drainage systems. All such easements so reserved may be utilized for public purposes as authorized by the Planning Committee, with the approval of the Board of Directors of the Bayshore Beach Club, Inc. No change in the natural drainage shall be made by any lot owner without prior approval from the Planning Committee.
ARTICLE III.
Bayshore Beach Club, Inc.
3. Unkempt Lots. The Bayshore Beach Club, Inc., shall have the right at all
times to enter upon any lot and after reasonable notice to the owner thereof to do whatever is reasonably necessary to return and maintain the appearance thereof to a condition that is clean, neat and otherwise consistent with the high standards expected of all lots within the sub-division and, in addition, to control erosion or any other form of soil stability by grading, planting or any other accepted practice therefor. The foregoing may be carried out at the expense of the Bayshore Beach Club, Inc., but said Bayshore Beach Club, Inc., shall have a lien upon the property, and the owner thereof shall be personally obligated to provide reimbursement to the Club for all expenses so incurred. Such lien may be enforced in the same manner as provided for in Subsection 2, Article III, relating to collection of dues and assessments. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to excuse the owner from any requirement of or under any other provision of this Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions.
ARTICLE IV.
Definitions
Wherever used in this Declaration, the following terms shall have meaning
given them in this Article IV.
2. "Declarants" shall mean those declarants signatory to this Declaration and
their heirs, assigns, and successors in interest so that it shall be clearly
understood that such rights, privileges, and options as are herein reserved
to or established for the declarants are subject to assignment and transfer by
them to the extent of their individual interests therein, and are in no way to
be deemed personal to them alone or terminable by their demise or by such
transfer or assignment.
3. "Club" shall mean Bayshore Beach Club, Inc., an Oregon Nonprofit
Corporation.
ARTICLE V.
General Provisions
binding on all parties and persons claiming under them for a period of 25 years from the date this Declaration is recorded, after which time said covenants and restrictions shall be automatically extended for successive periods of ten years unless an instrument signed by a majority of the then owners of all lots within the said property has been recorded, agreeing to extinguish or change said covenants and restrictions in whole or in part.
2. Enforcement. The Club is hereby charged with the authority and obligation
for the enforcement of the terms of this Declaration. Enforcement may be by
proceedings in equity or at law against any person or persons violating or
attempting or threatening to violate any of the covenants or restrictions hereof,
either to restrain such violation or to recover damages. In the event that the
club fails to take appropriate action for the enforcement of the covenants and
restrictions hereof within a reasonable time after a violation or threatened or
attempted violation is brought to its attention in writing, any person or persons
then owning lots within the said property may take such steps in law or in
equity as may be necessary for such enforcement. Any damages recovered in
such enforcement proceedings shall inure to the benefit of the person or
persons damaged by the violation involved. The party prevailing in any such
enforcement proceeding whether in law or in equity shall have from his
opponent such attorney's fees as the court may deem reasonable.
3. Severability. Invalidation of any one of these covenants and restrictions or
any part thereof by judgment or court order shall in no wise affect any of the
other provisions hereof, which shall remain in full force and effect.
4. Transfer of Rights. All the declarants herein shall have the right to transfer
at any time or from time to time all or any of the rights, privileges and options
of declarants to the Club. Such transfer or transfers must be in writing, and
may be made conditional or revocable by their terms.
5. Amendment of Declaration. This Declaration may be amended at any time by
the affirmative vote of a two-thirds majority of the voting power of the Club at
any annual meeting or at any special meeting specifically called for that
purpose.
6. Insertion in Deeds. The declarants, their heirs, assigns and successors in
interest hereby agree to inform any prospective purchaser or lessee of any of
the said property of the existence of this Declaration and the covenants and
restrictions herein contained; and further agree that in every deed or lease of
said property or any portion thereof a clause reasonably identical to the
following shall be inserted: "This real property is subject to the terms and
conditions of a Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions dated September 14
1964, and recorded upon the records of deeds of Lincoln County, Oregon."
IN WITNESS WHEREOF Declarants have hereunto set their hands and seals this 14th day of September, 1964.
SIGNED AND ACKNOWLEDGED